Our Commitment to Your Professional Development
As part of our ongoing commitment to the mental health community, we are proud to:
Offer free and affordable high-quality short courses carefully designed to meet the needs of mental health, social services, and community professionals.
Provide CPD certificates upon course completion, which can be used as permitted by your professional registration body.
These expertly curated courses have been praised by learners for their value, accessibility, and clinical relevance. They serve as a valuable resource for both newly qualified and experienced practitioners, offering insights and materials that are often difficult to find elsewhere.
Here’s a look at what’s available.
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Working with Suicidal Patients
Course • 5 lessonsIn this webinar, Dr. Nick Bendit will discuss the origins of suicidal thoughts, the function of urges, and differentiate between acute and chronic suicidality. He will explore the relationship between self-harm and suicidality, treatment needs,....
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Attachment Theory & Multiculturalism
Course • 5 lessonsThis webinar will offer a taste of the current state of empirical investigation of the caregiving sensitivity construct. On the one hand, this ‘mechanism’ has demonstrated causal efficacy in interventions with young children. On the other hand....
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Embracing the Plurality of Emotions and Affective Experience
Course • 6 lessonsThis 1.5 emotions primer explores the rich, complex field of emotion research, offering mental health practitioners a pluralistic framework to better understand and work with emotional experiences. It covers key theories, the tension between...
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Understanding Dissociation
Course • 4 lessonsThis webinar explores the nature of dissociation—what it is, how it manifests, & its cognitive & evolutionary underpinnings. It also examines dissociation in PTSD, borderline personality disorder, & dissociative identity disorder, with insights from.
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Demystifying Voluntary Assisted Dying
Course • 4 lessonsIn this webinar, Prof Melanie Turner will disambiguate the facts and myths surrounding VAD, covering key aspects including a summary of each region’s legislation and key differences; how the VAD process works and how people access it; .......
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Psychotherapy In Troubling Times
Course • 5 lessonsThis webinar explores the challenges of our troubled times, focusing on global issues like climate change, inequality, terrorism, racism, and the decline of democracy. It invites reflection on how these issues impact therapy and what additional....
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Therapist Self-care (especially in adverse times)
Course • 7 lessonsThis webinar will identify options for addressing therapists work-life balance. What self-care tactics might we employ that provide some relief from work stress, distress, trauma and enhance our private subjective well-being.
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Practical & Ethical Framework for Online Therapy by Dr Kris Rao
Course • 7 lessonsIn this Short Course, you will gain understanding of some of the key legal & ethical issues involved in providing online therapy especially around current industry requirements, informed consent, jurisdiction, legal requirements, etc.
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